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Silvio Giancola, Mohieddine Amine, Tarek Dghaily, Bernard Ghanem
"SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos"

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2018) [oral]
[dataset] [video]

Keywords:

action spotting, sports videos,

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Silvio Giancola, Jens Schneider, Peter Wonka, Bernard Ghanem
"Integration of Absolute Orientation Measurements in the KinectFusion Reconstruction Pipeline"

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2018)

Keywords:

kinectfusion, 3D reconstruction

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Baoyuan Wu, Fan Jia, Wei Liu, Bernard Ghanem, Siwei Lyu,
"Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels Using Mixed Dependency Graphs",

International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV 2018)

Keywords:

multi-label learning, missing labels, mixed dependency graphs

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Yancheng Bai, Yongqiang Zhang, Mingli Ding, Bernard Ghanem,
"Finding Tiny Faces in the Wild with Generative Adversarial Network",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018) [Oral]

Keywords:

generative adverserial network, face detection

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Baoyuan Wu, Weidong Chen, Peng Sun, Siwei Lyu, Bernard Ghanem,
"Tagging Like Humans: Diverse and Distinct Image Annotation",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018)

Keywords:

image annotation

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Jian Zhang and Bernard Ghanem,
"ISTA-Net: Interpretable Optimization-Inspired Deep Network for Image Compressive Sensing",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018)
[supplementary material] [code]

Keywords:

compressive sensing, optimization inspired deep networks

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Adel Bibi, Modar Alfadly, Bernard Ghanem,
“Analytic Expressions for Probabilistic Moments of PL-DNN with Gaussian Input",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018) [Oral]
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

deep neural network, probabilistic moments

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Matthias Mueller, Vincent Casser, Jean Lahoud, Bernard Ghanem,

"Sim4CV: A photo-realistic simulator for computer vision applications",

International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV 2018)

Keywords:

conditional imitaion learning, autonomous driving

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Yongqiang Zhang, Yancheng Bai, Mingli Ding, Yongqiang Li, Bernard Ghanem,
"W2F: A Weakly-Supervised to Fully-Supervised Framework for Object Detection",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

object detection, weak supervision, convolutional neural networks

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Sara Shaheen, Lama Affara, and Bernard Ghanem,
"Constrained Convolutional Sparse Coding for Parametric Based Reconstruction Of Line Drawings",

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

convolutional sparse coding, sketch drawing, parametric reconstruction

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Jean Lahoud and Bernard Ghanem,
"2D-Driven 3D Object Detection in RGB-D Images",

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

3d detection, RGBD images, multilayer perceptron

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Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem,
"High Order Tensor Formulation for Convolutional Sparse Coding",

International Conference on Computer Vision 2017 (ICCV17)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

tensors, convolutional sparse coding, tsvd

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Sara Shaheen, Bernard Ghanem,
"Stroke Style Transfer",

Proceedings of Eurographics (Short Paper) 2017

Keywords:

stroke style transfer, sketch representation, line drawing

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Adel Bibi, Hani Itani, Bernard Ghanem,
"FFTLasso: Large-Scale LASSO in the Fourier Domain",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017) [Oral]
[bibtex][code][supplementary material] [video]

Keywords:

fft, lasso, large-scale

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Matthias Mueller, Neil Smith, Bernard Ghanem,
"Context-Aware Correlation Filter Tracking",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017) [Oral]
[bibtex] [code] [supplementary material] [video]

Keywords:

context-aware, correlation filter, tracking

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Fabian Caba, Wayner Barrios, Bernard Ghanem,
"SCC: Semantic Context Cascade for Efficient Action Detection",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)
[bibtex] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

semantic context cascade, efficient action detection

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Baoyuan Wu, Fan Jia, Wei Liu, Bernard Ghanem,
"Diverse Image Annotation",
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)
[bibtex] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

diverse, image annotation

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Shyamal Buch, Victor Escorcia, Bernard Ghanem, Juan Carlos Niebles,
"SST: Single-Stream Temporal Action Proposals",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)

Keywords:

single-stream, temporal action proposals

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Ganzhao Yuan, Bernard Ghanem,
"A Matrix Splitting Method for Composite Function Minimization",

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)
[bibtex] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

matrix splitting method, composite function minimization

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Ganzhao Yuan, Bernard Ghanem,
"An Exact Penalty Method for Binary Optimization Based on MPEC Formulation",

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017)
[code]

Keywords:

binary optimization, MPEC formulation

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Matthias Mueller, Gopal Sharma, Neil Smith and Bernard Ghanem
"Persistent Aerial Tracking System for UAVs"

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016)
[bibtex] [video]

Keywords:

UAV Aerial Tracking System

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Victor Escorcia, Fabian Caba, Juan Carlos Niebles, Bernard Ghanem
"DAPs: Deep Action Proposals for Action Understanding"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016)
[code]

Keywords:

action proposals, action detection, long-short term memory

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Adel Bibi, Matthias Mueller, Bernard Ghanem
"Target Response Adaptation for Correlation Filter Tracking"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016)
[supplementary material] [Code] [Video] [Spotlight]

Keywords:

Correlation Filter Tracking, Adaptive Target Design

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Lama Affara, Liangliang Nan, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka
"Large Scale Asset Extraction for Urban Images"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016)
[supplementary material] [video] [code]

Keywords:

urban assets, object proposals, image rectification

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Matthias Mueller, Neil Smith and Bernard Ghanem
"A Benchmark and Simulator for UAV Tracking"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016)
[bibtex] [dataset] [simulator] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

UAV Tracking, UAV Simulator, Aerial Object Tracking, Benchmark, Dataset

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Yongqiang Li, Baoyuan Wu (corresponding author), Bernard Ghanem, Yongping Zhao, Hongxun Yao, Qiang Ji
“Facial Action Unit Recognition under Incomplete Data Based on Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels”

Pattern Recognition, 2016

Keywords:

Face action unit recognition, Incomplete data, Multi-label learning

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Tianzhu Zhang, Adel Bibi, and Bernard Ghanem
"In Defense of Sparse Tracking: Circulant Sparse Tracker"

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016)
[Derivation][supplementary material] [Derivation][video] [Spotlight]

Keywords:

visual tracking, circulant sparse tracker

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Fabian Caba, Juan Carlos Niebles, and Bernard Ghanem
"Fast Temporal Activity Proposals for Efficient Detection of Human Actions in Untrimmed Videos"

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016)
[supplementary material] [code]

Keywords:

activity proposals, action recognition, video analysis

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Adel Bibi, Tianzhu Zhang, and Bernard Ghanem
"3D Part-Based Sparse Tracker with Automatic Synchronization and Registration"

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016)
[video]

Keywords:

3D Tracker, Part-Based Tracker, particle filter

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Ganzhao Yuan and Bernard Ghanem
"A Proximal Alternating Direction Method for Semi-Definite Rank Minimization"

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016)
[code] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

Semidefinite Rank Minimization, MPEC, Sensor Network Localization, Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz Inequality, Proximal ADM, Convergence Analysis

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Baoyuan Wu, Siwei Lyu, Bernard Ghanem
"Constrained Submodular Minimization for Missing Labels and Class Imbalance in Multi-label Learning"

The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016 )
[code] [supplementary material]

Keywords:

Submodular Minimization, Missing Labels, Multi-label Learning

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Sara Shaheen, Alyn Rockwood, and Bernard Ghanem
"SAR: Stroke Authorship Recognition"

Computer Graphics Forum 2015
[data]

Keywords:

sketch, stroke, stroke segments, style, authorship recognition, fraud detection, sketch training

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Mohamed Hachama, Bernard Ghanem, and Peter Wonka
"Intrinsic Scene Decomposition from RGB-D Images"

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015
[supplementary material] [video]

Keywords:

Intrinsic Decomposition, RGB-D Images

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Rachit Dubey, Joshua Peterson, Aditya Khosla, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Bernard Ghanem
"What makes an object memorable?"

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015)
[data] [bibtex]

Keywords:

Image Memorability, Object Memorability, Deep Learning

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Baoyuan Wu, Siwei Lyu, and Bernard Ghanem
"ML-MG: Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels Using a Mixed Graph"

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015)
[code]

Keywords:

Missing Label, Multi-label Learning, Mixed Graph

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Adel Bibi and Bernard Ghanem
"Multi-Template Scale Adaptive Kernelized Correlation Filters"

International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW/VOT 2015)
[code][supplementary material]

Keywords:

Tracking, Correlation Filters

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Liangliang Nan, Caigui Jiang, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka
"Template Assembly for Detailed Urban Reconstruction"

Eurographics (EG 2015)
[suppl 1] [suppl 2] [video] [slides]

Keywords:

Computer Graphics, Urban Reconstruction

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Tianzhu Zhang, Si Liu, Changsheng Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Bernard Ghanem, Narendra Ahuja, and Ming-Hsuan Yang
“Structural Sparse Tracking”
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)

Keywords:

Tracking, Sparse Optimization

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Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, Si Liu, Narendra Ahuja
"Robust Visual Tracking via Exclusive Context Modeling"

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2015

Keywords:

Tracking

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Bernard Ghanem, Ali Thabet, Juan Carlos Niebles, and Fabian Caba
“Robust Manhattan Frame Estimation from a Single RGB-D Image”

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)
[supplementary material][video][code][data]

Keywords:

Sparse Optimization, Robust Estimation

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Victor Castillo, Juan Carlos Niebles, and Bernard Ghanem
“On the Relationship between Visual Attributes and Convolutional Networks”

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

Visual Attributes, Convolution Networks

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Ganzhao Yuan and Bernard Ghanem
“L0TV : A New Method for Image Restoration in the Presence of Impulse Noise”

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)
[supplementary material] [code] [slides] [oral]

Keywords:

Image Restoration, Sparse Optimization

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Bernard Ghanem, Yuanhao Cao, Peter Wonka
"Designing Camera Networks by Convex Quadratic Programming"

Eurographics (EG 2015)
[video]

Keywords:

Camera Placement, Computer Graphics

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Fabian Caba Heilbron, Victor Castillo, Bernard Ghanem, and Juan Carlos Niebles
“ActivityNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Human Activity Understanding”

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)
[supplementary material]

Keywords:

Action Recognition, Large Scale

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Indriyati Atmosukarto, Narendra Ahuja, Bernard Ghanem
"Action Recognition using Discriminative Structured Trajectory Groups"

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2015)

Keywords:

Action Recognition

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Tianzhu Zhang, Si Liu, Narendra Ahuja, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Bernard Ghanem
"Robust Visual Tracking Via Consistent Low-Rank Sparse Learning"

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2014)

Keywords:

Visual tracking, Temporal consistency, Sparse representation, Low-rank representation

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Rachit Dubey, Akshat Dave, Bernard Ghanem
"Improving Saliency Models by Predicting Human Fixation Patches"

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014)

Keywords:

Human Fixation, Human Visual System Understanding

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Rachit Dubey, Akshat Dave, Bernard Ghanem
"Improving Saliency Models by Predicting Human Fixation Patches"

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014)

Keywords:

Pose Estimation

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Fabian Caba Heilbron, Ali Thabet, Juan Carlos Niebles, Bernard Ghanem
"Camera Motion and Surrounding Scene Appearance as Context for Action Recognition"

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014)

Keywords:

Action Recognition

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Ali Thabet, Jean Lahoud, Daniel Asmar, Bernard Ghanem
"3D Aware Correction and Completion of Depth Maps in Piecewise Planar Scenes"

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014)

Keywords:

Depth Maps, 3D Understanding

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I. Atmosukarto, B. Ghanem, S. Ahuja, K. Muthuswamy, N.Ahuja
"Automatic Recognition of Offensive Team Formation in American Football Plays"

IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports), 2013
Won Best Paper Award

Keywords:

Automatic Recognition, American Football Plays

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T. Zhang, B. Ghanem, S. Liu, N. Ahuja
"Robust Visual Tracking via Structured Multi-Task Sparse Learning"

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2013)

Keywords:

Visual Tracking, Particle Filter, Graph, Structure, Sparse Representation, Multi-task Learning

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T. Zhang, B. Ghanem, C.Xu, N. Ahuja
"Object Tracking by Occlusion Detection via Structured Sparse Learning"

IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports), 2013

Keywords:

Visual Tracking, Object Tracking, Structured Sparse Learning, Occlusion Detection

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G. Yuan, B.Ghanem, Z. Zhang, Z. Hao
"BILGO: Bilateral Greedy Optimization for Large Scale Semidefinite Programming"

Neurocomputing Journal 2013

Keywords:

Semidefinite Programming, Low-Rank Optimization, Rank-1 Approximation, Frank-Wolfe algorithm, Leading Eigenvector, Metric Learning, Kernel Learning

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J. Varadarajan, I. Atmosukarto, S. Ahuja, B. Ghanem, N. Ahuja
"A Topic Model Approach to Represent and Classify American Football Plays"

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2013)

Keywords:

Football Plays, Modeling, Classify, Represent

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T. Zhang, B. Ghanem, S. Liu, N. Ahuja
"Low-Rank Sparse Coding for Image Classification"

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013)

Keywords:

Low Ranks, Coding, Image Classification

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Indriyati Atmosukarto, Bernard Ghanem, Narendra Ahuja
"Trajectory-based Fisher Kernel Representation for Action Recognition in Videos"

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012)
[oral]

Keywords:

Action Recognition, Fisher Kernel Representation

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Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, Si Liu, and Narendra Ahuja
"Robust Visual Tracking via Multi-Task Sparse Learning"

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2012)
[oral]

Keywords:

Visual Tracking, Sparse Representation

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Bernard Ghanem, Tianzhu Zhang, and Narendra Ahuja
"Robust Video Registration Applied to Field-Sports Video Analysis"

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012)

Keywords:

registration, homography, l1 minimization, sparse representation

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Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, and Narendra Ahuja
"Robust Multi-Object Tracking Via Cross-Domain Contextual Information For Sports Video Analysis"

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012)

Keywords:

Tracking, Particle Filter, Cross-Domain, Contextual Information

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"Modeling Dynamic Swarms"

Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU 2012) (arXiv e-print 2011 arXiv:1102.1292v1 [cs.CV])

Keywords:

Swarms, Dynamic textures, Crowd behavior analysis, Spatiotemporal analysis

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Tianzhu Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, and Narendra Ahuja
"Low-Rank Sparse Learning for Robust Visual Tracking"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2012)

Keywords:

Visual Tracking, Low Rank Representation, Sparse Representation

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Ganzhao Yuan, Zhenjie Zhang*, Bernard Ghanem*, and Zhifeng Hao
"Low-Rank Quadratic Semidefinite Programming"

Neurocomputing Journal 2012

Keywords:

Semidefinite Programming, Metric Learning, Kernel Learning, Eigenvalue Decomposition, Low-Rank and Sparse Matrix Approximation

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Akshat Dave*, Rachit Dubey*, Bernard Ghanem
"Do Humans Fixate on Interest Points?"

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012)
[oral]

Keywords:

Vision Systems, Interest Point Detectors

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Bernard Ghanem, Maya Kreidieh*, Marc Farra*, Tianzhu Zhang
"Context-Aware Learning for Automatic Sports Highlight Recognition"

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012)

Keywords:

Context-Aware Learning

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"A Probabilistic Framework for Discriminative Dictionary Learning"

(arXiv e-print 2011 arXiv:1109.2389v1 [cs.CV])

Keywords:

Pobabilistic Framework, Dictionary Learning

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Emre Akbas, Bernard Ghanem, and Narendra Ahuja
"MIS-Boost: Multiple Instance Selection Boosting"

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2012)

Keywords:

Image Classification, Large Class, Instance selection, Boosting

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Bernard Ghanem, Narendra Ahuja
"Sparse Coding of Linear Dynamical Systems with an Application to Dynamic Texture Recognition"

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)

Keywords:

Texture Recognition, Sparse Optimization

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"Dinkelbach NCUT: A Framework for Solving Normalized Cuts Problems with Priors and Convex Constraints"

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2010)

Keywords:

Normalized Cuts, Convex Optimization

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Bernard Ghanem, Narendra Ahuja
"Maximum Margin Distance Learning for Dynamic Texture Recognition"

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010)

Keywords:

Texture Recognition, Distance Learning

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Bernard Ghanem, Esther Resendiz, and Narendra Ahuja
"Segmentation-Based Perceptual Image Quality Assessment (SPIQA)"

International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2008)

Keywords:

IQM, QA, HVS, segmentation, saliency

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"Extracting a Fluid Dynamic Texture and the Background from Video"

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008)

Keywords:

Video Analysis, Dynamic Texture

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"Phase PCA for Dynamic Texture Video Compression"

International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007)

Keywords:

Dynamic texture, Phase, LDS, PCA

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Bernard Ghanem and Narendra Ahuja
"Phase Based Modeling of Dynamic Textures"

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007)

Keywords:

Dynamic Textures

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Bernard Ghanem, Jianming Liang, Jinbo Bi, Marcos Salganicoff, and Arun Krishnan
"Reduction of Lymph Tissue False Positives in Pulmonary Embolism Detection"

SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2007

Keywords:

detection, X-ray CT, feature extraction, classification and classifier design, segmentation, tensor voting, multiple instance learning

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Bernard Ghanem, Ali Fawaz, Ghassan Karame
"Real-Time Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments"

4th annual AUB Student Conference 2005

Keywords:

Mobile Robot, SLAM, Computer Vision, Landmark detection, Localization.

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M. Bernardine Dias, Bernard Ghanem, and Anthony Stentz
"Improving Cost Estimation in Market-Based Coordination of a Distributed Sensing Task"

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005)